So fantastic belting about checking in on polling stations, how the staff are getting on, what turn out is, and having yet more glorious conversations with electors in car parks, well outside each curtilage! 🅿️ And chatting to the tourists.
Both really excited for tomorrow and sad that the campaigning is all over bar the shouting. I have loved driving around the constituency so much, loved every single conversation, kept whacking on the hazzards at the side of the road
I’m Ellie Merton, the independent candidate for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk at this general election tomorrow. My manifesto is centred on a positive set of proposals of creative industries support, piloting ground-breaking restoring nature and biodiversity projects on land and
Thanks to East Berwickshire Churches Together, we enjoyed a fascinating and feisty final hustings with all eight of us candidates in Eyemouth this evening. It was the first and last time all eight of us were in the same debating
I’d really welcome your donations of even the smallest amount, to my candidate crowdfunder – https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ellie-merton-for-berwickshire-roxburgh-selkirk – to help me cover my election costs. Every penny is an investment in a better Scottish Borders for all electors in Berwickshire, Roxburgh
Here’s a little video, explaining why I am trying to get round to meet as many electors in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk as possible, but keep hitting the energy buffers due to #LongCovid and #Depression just when I want to
Many positive memories have been popping up on Facebook for this time of year from over the decades, but today’s reminder of the weekend immediately after the EU Referendum is pretty miserable, but apposite. Below is my FB post from
I am so grateful to Scottish Borders Chamber of Commerce for hosting such an intesting and brilliantly testing hustings, that really made all us candidates think and work out exactly how to help the many and varied types of business
Had some fabulous Eyemouth fishing village conversations this morning, but this afternoon had yet another longstanding orchestral playing commitment, this time in Edinburgh. I am SO lucky to be able to play the most stonking repertoire with some of the
I had intended to get across to Ettrick, but only got as far as a gorgeous village, not far from Kelso, where I door-knocked the whole lane and learnt an inordinate amount of useful, enlightening, fascinating, troubling and important information